Alfred Tennyson Born August 6 1809 Died October 6 1892 framed canvas an ecclesiastical genealogy issued in

an ecclesiastical genealogy issued in the year Brigham Young's Utah was still negotiating its place inside a federal republic uneasy with its prophets

1893 — a year inscribed on the ledger of the Gilded Age's reckoning

the founding grievance rendered with the dramatic certainty only a century of hindsight can lend

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre

a wash was run

Alfred Tennyson Born August 6 1809 Died October 6 1892 framed canvas an ecclesiastical genealogy issued inAlfred Tennyson, Born August 6 1809, Died October 6 1892 a memorial portrait bracketing the Laureate's eighty three years between two engraved dates, the kind of commemorative print Victorian American parlors hung beside Longfellow, mourning a poet whose cadences had crossed the Atlantic long before his death. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,